WILLIE SMITH SMATHERS
KITTITAS COUNTY, WA

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Contributed by:  Shelli Steedman 4/20/2007


Mrs. Willie F. [Smith] Collins Smathers, 31, died Thursday [January 3, 1952]
in Seattle at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Charles L. Miles.  She had been
ill a short while and went to Seattle three weeks ago.

She came to the state of Washington from West Virginia in 1902 with a
previous husband and two children.  They settled in the Kittitas valley, and
she had since made her home here.

She became the wife of John E. Smathers of Ellensburg who survives her.  Mrs.
Smathers is also survived by a son, Frank Collins of Seattle, and five
daughters, Mrs. Nettie C. Lane and Mrs. Ettie M. Sackett of Tacoma, Mrs.
Victor L. Hewitt and Mrs. Miles of Seattle, and Mrs. W. J Weybright of
Columbia Falls, Montana; four grandchildren and five great grandchildren.

Internment is to take place here Monday in the IOOF cemetery following
funeral rites at Honeycutt-Evenson funeral home.  The time of service is to
be announced.